“That was when we decided it would be an effective way to keep people off the lions,” she said Friday. “We don’t want to scare them to death, we want to remind them that these are wild beasts and they shouldn’t be climbed.”

People love to snap photos of the feline sentries, but they shouldn’t be pawed by humans, Hogan says. The bronze lions are considered works of art and were donated to the museum in 1893. It’s also not safe to be climbing around the pedestaled works, she says.

Reporter Roseanne Tellez, who joined CBS 2 Chicago in 2004, has been a fixture in Illinois news since the 90s.
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